Essays 601 - 630
she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...
fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
the Russian culture has long remained something of a mystery as well. Even despite the seemingly mysterious nature of Russian l...
possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...
opens the story by saying that he has heard that when people go through some sort of strange or supernatural experience, they usua...
flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...
a room that "opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would...
Hutchinson never protests the against the injustice of human sacrifice, but rather that the selection her family was not fair. A....
at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...
postman, then the stores and trades people, then the neighbors (Bellow, 2002). "But youll find the closer you come to your man, th...
three oclock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?" (Hemingway). His colleague says "He stays up because he likes it" (Hemingwa...
bus she and Julian are taking downtown to the Y, his mother plays with the child (OConnor). She doesnt see that the childs mother ...
end of the story, because the man whose son was killed appears to be handling it well. He notes that life is difficult, and that w...
that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...
Iin four pages this combination research paper and essay discusses the critical thematic interpretation of this famous short story...
the thesis. OConnor, Flannery. "Greenleaf" in Everything that Rises Must Converge. HarperCollins Canada, 1956, p. 24-53. As a ...
path reaches a dead end a new one begins. By choosing a poor elderly African-American woman as her tales protagonist, Welty is ab...
down, pistol in hand, and he had cried out in time to save himself, and his father had been horrified to think how nearly he had k...
a surprise! She ... knew. Of course, you always hope for the best. She heard but she didnt hear" (Jones 166). There are several ...
serious illness. The five stages are generally thought to be denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance ("The stages of ...
In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...
against Mrs. Hutchinson, and they only wanted to get through quickly so they could go home for lunch" (The Lottery: Shirley Jackso...
In one such commentary, "Managing political dissent," she offers up a look at Singapore from many perspectives. In this essay one ...
his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...
such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...
otherworldly and immovable. She is not a fully functioning human being. Louise Mallard is also damaged, but her weakness is physi...
until he is drunk so the main character gets drunk, passes out and then is told that Zaabalawi was there with him all night. This ...
as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...